The BBC reports that Mr. Martin, tasked with drawing up the UN's post-conflict plans, said after a meeting with the UN Security Council yesterday that Libya's interim rulers have ruled out the deployment of any sort of international force to the country. Martin's original plan for Libya imagined up to 200 unarmed military observers plus an "interim protection force" for the observers, if the Libyans agreed.

That agreement hasn't been forthcoming. Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy representative to the UN, told the BBC that there is no need for deploying peacekeepers.